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Bros.-Clyde Beatty Circus, playing Seattle, Tacoma and Aberdeen. He never failed to get a laugh when Kellams pulled him around in an old buggy and introduced him as "the mayor of Seattle...
Night before, the royal family boarded their private railway coaches, bound for the traditional six-weeks holiday at beautiful Scottish Balmoral Castle. At Aberdeen, kilted King George, his Scottish Queen, and their two little princesses, decked in royal Stuart tartan, received a rousing welcome from thousands of sturdy Aberdonians, drove fifty miles along the Dee River to Balmoral Castle...
...railroads from the Aberdeen & Rockfish to the Yreka Western, all conventional locomotives have what engineers call a ''Johnson bar" -a manually-operated seven-foot steel lever which puts the locomotive either in reverse or forward motion and also controls the flow of new steam into the boilers to adjust speed. On small engines the Johnson bar causes no trouble, has been used for 50 years without improvement. When bigger engines began to appear 20 years ago, however, handling the bar became back-breaking work and the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen began agitating...
Died. Dr. Alfred Adler, 67, Viennese psychologist, founder of the school of "individual psychology," originator of the phrase "inferiority complex," longtime professional enemy of Dr. Sigmund Freud, his old teacher; after collapsing in ihe street; in Aberdeen, Scotland...
...Lang? The seventh son of a seventh son, dour, hawk-nosed Cosmo Gordon Lang, 72, was not raised in the church that he governs. His father was a Presbyterian preacher, the Very Rev. John Marshall Lang, Principal of Aberdeen University.* At University of Glasgow precocious Cosmo Gordon Lang won his M.A. degree at the age of 18 and a year later a valuable scholarship at swank Balliol College, Oxford. Always a politician, always ambitious, Student Lang was elected president of the Oxford Union over such potent undergraduates as Lord Curzon, Sir Edward Grey, Novelist Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (The Prisoner...